Article: Caught Between Stages: Relational Aggression Emerging as a Developmental Advance in At-Risk Preschoolers

Abstract.

Eighty-two Head Start preschoolers were assessed with a peer rating measure of sociometric status, the Social Skills Rating System for Teachers (Gresham & Elliott, 1990), an Overt Aggression scale culled from items from the Aggressive Behavior subscale of the CBCL-TRF (Achenbach, 1997), and teacher ratings of relational aggression (Crick, Casas, & Mosher, 1997). In a regression model, overt aggression, age, social skills, and an interaction between social skills and overt aggression significantly predicted 27 percent of the variance in relational aggression. Being older, more overtly aggressive, and more socially skilled was predictive of increased relational aggression in ...

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